Nixon to Now: How the Kitchen Debate Came Home

Nixon to Now: How the Kitchen Debate Came Home

In July 1959, at the American National Exhibition in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park, Vice President Richard Nixon stepped into a model suburban kitchen and found himself in a now-famous impromptu exchange with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.  Known as the “Kitchen Debate,” the moment became emblematic of Cold War tensions — not over missiles or military power, but over washing machines, color televisions, and the promise of frozen orange juice. Nixon…